{"id":18152,"date":"2015-09-08T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T07:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/research\/ten-year-long-study-offers-new-insights-into-wildfires-in-amazon-rainforest\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:15:18","slug":"ten-year-long-study-offers-new-insights-into-wildfires-in-amazon-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/ten-year-long-study-offers-new-insights-into-wildfires-in-amazon-rainforest","title":{"rendered":"Ten-year long study offers new insights into wildfires in Amazon rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Researchers at the Department of Geography at CU-Boulder published the findings of the longest and largest study of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">wildfires\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">in Amazon, which is the world&#8217;s largest rainforest. In this study\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">lasting a decade, the researchers selected a 370-acre plot in the southeastern portion of the Amazon and tested the effects of controlled fires of different burn frequencies. Some sections were burnt to mimic human-caused wildfires, and other sections were burnt to mimic the natural El Nino cycle. They found that Amazon forests were able to withstand an initial, low-intensity burn without suffering permanent damage. However, repeated blazes, especially when those fires coincided with drought years, were extremely damaging to the forests. The researchers also found a strong correlation between the extent of the burn area and the presence in nearby areas of leaf-cutter ant colonies, in that, these ants remove leaf litter and other woody debris on the ground thus reducing fuel sources for blazes to continue burning and spreading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/09\/150902135129.htm\">Science Daily<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2872],"class_list":["post-18152","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-earth-and-planetary-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ten-year long study offers new 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